HISTORY

A brilliant Swedish biological science doctor and chemist, Professor Gudran Kranan, several years ago, was the lead member of a science team representing Sweden in Europe's "Science Olympics", an event designed for a single national team, every four years, to earn a $50 million Euros award for one of ten field-created projects created and judged by Pulitzer Prize-winning scientists from around the world. 

The "Science Olympics" was the brainchild of the European multi-billionaire Leopold Denalli, who wanted top European scientists to compete in applying science to making the world a better place. This event's ten fields of competition this time were in computers, neurology, psychology, astronomy, paleontology, energy sciences, emergency medical sciences, pharmacology and zoology. Professor Kranan wanted his team to compete in 6 of the 10 events (computers, neurology, psychology, energy science, pharmacology and zoology), hoping to win at least one of them. Although the team was highly skeptical of Professor Kranan's plan, they nonetheless planned to give it everything they had. 

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Each of the Swedish team members was a specialist in each of the 6 events, with Professor Kranan believing he was a specialist in all of them.  Each field had four days each to show their work to the judges, with the events coupled or done in series as required for the schedule. As the two-week competition entered its first week, two of the Swedish team's events, computers and psychology, were both won by Germany, with the Swedish team's contributions been judged dead last.  Professor Kranan was furious with his team and demanded the losing events' Swedish scientists be remove from the team with 'letters of reprimand' to their associated employers stating their 'pathetic knowledge and efforts', so which the Science Olympics judges, of course, said 'no' to Professor Kranan's demand.

Professor Kranan was later met with disdain and boos as the competition continued and his arrogance and derision increased against his fellow hard-working scientists.  Eventually, it came down to the final competition in neurology.  Professor Kranan fired his fellow scientists from the team and told everyone he'd 'now show them what a great scientist could do".

As such, Professor Kranan decided to meld all six of the Swedish team's event choices into the neurology field, and using the sciences of all six fields, show the judges that he not only could win in the neurology event, but that he should be granted a win for each of the six events as well.  Although the judges stipulated it was against the rules, Professor Kranan, in his sleep-depreciated and maniacal condition, ignored their objections.  As a result, Professor Kranan began coalescing his plan, using his new DNA computer mapping software and hardware. He was now able to identify biological anomalies in a test specie (in this case, lizards), thus coding a lizard's DNA for cloning and metaphysical healing through computer-injected DNA strands, as well as impart a neurological synaptic "numbing" ray (combining neurology and energy science) to ensure the test specie (lizard) would feel no pain, and then, using specific computer-generated electro-charges, be able to adjust the behavior of the test specie (lizard) to perform several pre-listed physical actions upon command. Nonetheless to say, Professor Kranan's plan bordered on the edge of inappropriate morality and humanitarian actions.

On the final day of competition, Professor Kranan produced his results.  5 out of the 6 event-based sciences were indeed performed and considered revolutionary, however, two factors created a situation that Professor Kranan did not foresee.  In performing the final resultant of his entry, the lizard died before hundreds of thousands of viewers watching the event. This, coupled with the fact that the judges were already horrified at what Professor Kranan had produced, failed Professor Kranan and demanded him to be immediately escorted from the Science Olympics, as well as have his certifications revoked for breach of scientific ethics and morality.  In a last ditch effort to prove he had the superior solution to these six events, before the security guards could get to him to escort his out, Professor Kranan hooked up his experimental equipment to himself and threw the switch.

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The horror that resulted before the shocked judges and led most of the on-site crowd to run screaming from the auditorium.

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Professor Kranan's body and head began to change from flesh and bone to green scales and cartilage; his head grew twice its original size, and his body shot up to 7 1/2 feet tall!  In the middle of all this, security guards tackled Professor Kranan and ripped him from the DNA encoding computers and experimental equipment, creating a massive electrical backlash, as well as a psionic blast from Professor Kranan himself.  When Professor Kranan stood up, he was no longer the slender, short human he once was; instead he was now a tall, green scaled, bulbous-headed monster.  Professor Kranan walked over to the shocked judges and demanded that they say he won the entire Science Olympic competition in all categories, for which each judge, now being mentally controlled by Professor Kranan, said 'yes' to. With that, Professor Kranan laughed an evil, monstrous laugh as he relished the moment of being the 'sole' Science Olympics winner - that is until one of Sweden's newest super-heroes, The Swede Champion, arrived.

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The Swede Champion, an old B-list Swedish superhero from the 1960s, demanded that Professor Kranan surrender peacefully tothe police, based on the charge of criminal acts against animals and humanity. Professor Kranan, enraged at being called a criminal, assaulted the Swede Champion with a psionic blast that literally fried the Swede Champion's brain in seconds.  The Swede Champion dropped to the floor like a sack of wet oats. As the arriving police entered the auditorium and drew their taser weapons, Professor Kranan mentally blasted all of the police, leaving each in a mentally vegetative state even to this day.

A young science student from France, who'd been entered in the pharmacology field, ran up behind Professor Kranan and injected Kranan with a painless drug that was designed to help traumatized patients with mental injuries.  The drug caused Professor Kranan's brain to shutdown, thus dropping him unconscious to the floor.  A second wave of police arrived seconds later and gathered Professor Kranan up and took him off to prison, where he remained for the last few years, heavily sedated wearing a psychic-inhibitor helmet (ironically created by one of the 'fired' scientists from Professor Kranan's team).

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A few years ago, Professor Kranan was found missing from his cell.

After weeks of searching from all the major investigative organizations (Scotland Yard, INTERPOL, FBI, Kremlin, etc), reports started coming in regarding several attacks made by 'scientist-soldiers' calling themselves "The Catalysts", all of whom named their leader as Professor Kranan.

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Since then, Professor Kranan has started a war on man's dominance on Earth. He has since killed or had some 'thing' kill each of the Science Olympic judges and Professor Kranan's Science Olympics teammates. Hunted down by the United Nations, GUARD and the superhero community (to avenge the Swede Champion's demise), Professor Kranan and the Catalysts have evaded capture, even though several of the Catalysts' labs were raided and/or discovered.  There, within those discovered labs, monstrous experiments were found to have occurred on animals, marine life and humans, leaving the corpses and bones of dozens of mutilated and biologically experimented-on bodies and scientifically generated creatures left in heaps in trash bins and cages, some of which of those that were caged, died of  starvation.

Since then hundreds of the world's scientists have been reported as abducted or missing, some of which, their bodies were found 'changed' into creatures or human-hybrid animals that died from the shock of the change/alteration. Recent reports have also identified 'animal-like soldiers' kidnapping people and/or gruesomely killing family members of some of the missing scientists. A few superheroes  encountered The Catalysts and/or Professor Kranan only to be found gruesomely killed and/or mind blasted to a vegetative state, with no additional clues as to The Catalysts or Professor Kranan's location or plans.

Today, Professor Kranan is, according to himself, 'the most dangerous being on the planet'. Kranan's ego alone demands that he create and distribute a 'reminder' video to the media every other month to let the 'dregs of the world' know how smart he is and that humanity's days are numbered. Professor Kranan still leads the Catalysts and continues his experimentation and scientific work using what he calls 'volunteer' scientists (according to Professor Kranan, as 'on his payroll') and 'other' helpers looking to stop humanity's dominance over the Earth and to make Earth an 'Eden' unto itself once again.

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